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General Tips: Currency
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  • Cairns - Australian Dollars (AUD)
  • Australian Dollars (AUD)
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  • Favorite Thing: Australian currency is in dollars ($AUD). There are 100 cents to a dollar. We have 5, 10, 20 and 50 cent pieces (coins), which are silver, 1 and 2 dollar coins, which are gold.

    We also have 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollar notes. Each note is a distinctively different colour and they each have a 'clear window' in the notes. "Australia was the first country in the world to have a complete system of bank notes based on plastic (polymer). These notes provide much greater security against counterfeiting. They also last four times as long as conventional paper (fibrous) notes." (taken from: www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency.html)

    For more information - like who are the people on the notes see the website above.


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    Comments for Marpessa about Cairns
    Henrik_rrb Mon May 7, 2007 12:17 UTC
     Comedy club on the flight!? Great job! ;) Good tips! Can a storm really be excellent?
    rwlittle Fri Jan 13, 2006 06:51 UTC
     I spent some of my childhood in Townsville, to the south of here, and we had spectacular storms there, and I would suspect the same here. Great tips!

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